Word: anxiousness
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...issue this time, as it was in January and in two wars since the departing British partitioned the subcontinent in 1947, is Kashmir. On the Indian side, Jammu and Kashmir have a Muslim majority, which fuels Pakistan's claim over the territory. Hindu India, anxious to prove its secular credentials, refuses to let go, clinging on with a mix of high-handed vote rigging and indifference to public opinion. For Muslim Pakistan, still smarting decades after the 1971 war in which India successfully broke Bangladesh--then East Pakistan--away from West Pakistan, Kashmir remains a call to arms, a national...
...hiring queue, behind the horde of anxious college grads, are the high school students who lack either the money or the grades or the inclination for higher education. Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum points out that 1 in 10 teenagers lost a job during the recession. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration is trying to cut funding for federal job-training programs for young adults, even though independent studies have shown that for every dollar spent on programs for disadvantaged youth like Job Corps, society saves about $2 from increased productivity and lower costs related to crime and welfare. Jessica Collins...
...animals, especially the small, scurrying kind, appear to feel anxiety. Humans have felt it since the days they shared the planet with saber-toothed tigers. (Notice which species is still around to tell the tale.) But we live in a particularly anxious age. The initial shock of Sept. 11 has worn off, and the fear has lifted, but millions of Americans continue to share a kind of generalized mass anxiety. A recent TIME/CNN poll found that eight months after the event, nearly two-thirds of Americans think about the terror attacks at least several times a week. And it doesn...
...then told seniors not to be anxious when they find their options beginning to narrow. There will be “forks in the roads, and roads not taken,” Summers said, but graduates should embrace the chance to find their calling...
...case, by the end of his sophomore year, Gates was getting bored with Harvard and was anxious to move...